hates California it’s cold and it’s damp It’s past midnight when I get off the train at Montague and notice the picture of Sinatra in the poster shop window – a 1935 mug shot from the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office, featuring a twenty-three year old Frank, clear eyed and with pompadour. I can’t help but […]
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Roland Galli’s Batboy
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Roland Galli Sr. died last week. I put Mr. Galli up there with Joe Picetti and Len Stefanelli in a particular triad of my dad’s more charismatic pals. He was a sales legend at KGO radio who kept General Manager Mickey Luckoff on his toes, to put it politely. He was a Little League coach […]
Farm Aid NYC
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
“..out of kindness, I suppose” – Townes Van Zandt , Pancho and Lefty If kindness is contagious, unkindness might be epidemic. But enough on that – it’s almost too big to touch. New York looked so nice that day, chaos not withstanding. Just the way the sun was hitting the buildings and that feeling of […]
Burning Man Burns Prematurely
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Well, that just about sums up my life. Got a kick out of this article from today’s SF Gate website on the untimely torching of the Nevada festival’s revered icon and ultimate hippie magnet. Apparently, 35 year old Paul Addis of San Francisco couldn’t wait for the event’s final climactic evening to see the Burning […]
Get In The Ring
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
rode with the muggers in the dark and dread and all them sluggers went down like lead -Mark Knopfler “Song for Sonny Liston” So Michael Vick got nailed for dog fighting. Some will point out that it’s just animals involved, but this argument has been applied with equally dismissive distinction to certain groups of people […]
Riff-Raff
Friday, August 10, 2007
Bon is gone but Brooklyn rocks on A long time ago a girl I liked at work had a denim jacket with a “Riff Raff” button pinned to it. At first I thought it reference to the AC-DC tune, and then I figured it a character from Rocky Horror Picture Show, but I believe it […]
Dorian Gray Brooklyn
Saturday, July 21, 2007
Enjoying another fine weekend in the borough with the intention of using my new bar b que set up this evening with my friends Sara and Steve. This morning, my dad sent me this link to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on the recent death of Jim Mitchell, the last surviving Mitchell Brother. […]
Sops Wrap
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
The Sopranos wrapped on Sunday night, not in an Italian restaurant but in a typically American diner and to the strains of Steve Perry singing Journey’s classically cheesy power ballad “Don’t Stop Believing.” Stopped mid-sentence as a matter of fact, without any neatly satisfying conclusion, shocking twists or gunfire montage. There were inferences and implications, […]
Bakeries Doon Below
Saturday, June 2, 2007
A woman fell through a metal grate in the sidewalk a few weeks back. It was a poorly welded Con Edison cover and she dropped about fifteen feet to the ground below. I watched it on the news – there one second and gone the next, a perfect life encapsulation in a few sketchy black […]